🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Sheet Metal Former” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #453 of 702. Estimated risk: 82.0%

Directly assessed by researchers as likely automatable
Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

38%

“Sheet Metal Former” will probably not be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 38% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

59%

“Sheet Metal Former” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 59% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Sheet Metal Workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.

Avg. Annual Salary $66,110
Avg. Hourly Wage $31.78
Available Jobs (US) 117,470
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Sheet Metal Workers #47-2211
Wage vs. National Median
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Sheet Metal Workers”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Core Skills & Abilities

  • Maneuver completed roofing units into position for installation.

  • Perform building commissioning activities by completing mechanical inspections of a building's water, lighting, or heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.

  • Hire, train, or supervise new employees or apprentices.

  • Finish parts, using hacksaws or hand, rotary, or squaring shears.

  • Verify that heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are designed, installed, and calibrated in accordance with green certification standards, such as those of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

  • Select gauges or types of sheet metal or nonmetallic material, according to product specifications.

  • Fasten seams or joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, or bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items.

  • Fasten roof panel edges or machine-made moldings to structures by nailing or welding.

  • Transport prefabricated parts to construction sites for assembly and installation.

  • Fabricate or alter parts at construction sites, using shears, hammers, punches, or drills.

  • Install assemblies, such as flashing, pipes, tubes, heating and air conditioning ducts, furnace casings, rain gutters, or downspouts in supportive frameworks.

  • Trim, file, grind, deburr, buff, or smooth surfaces, seams, or joints of assembled parts, using hand tools or portable power tools.

  • Determine project requirements, such as scope, assembly sequences, or required methods or materials, using blueprints, drawings, or written or verbal instructions.

  • Shape metal material over anvils, blocks, or other forms, using hand tools.

  • Maintain equipment, making repairs or modifications when necessary.

  • Lay out, measure, and mark dimensions and reference lines on material, such as roofing panels, using calculators, scribes, dividers, squares, or rulers.

  • Convert blueprints into shop drawings to be followed in the construction or assembly of sheet metal products.

  • Inspect individual parts, assemblies, or installations, using measuring instruments, such as calipers, scales, or micrometers.

  • Fabricate ducts for high efficiency heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to maximize efficiency of systems.

Technologies & Software

  • Applied Production ProFab
  • PTC Creo Parametric
  • Procore AI
  • Autodesk Construction AI
  • Microsoft Office software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Siemens NX
  • Revcad Software Sheet Lightning
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Buildots AI
  • Microsoft Word
  • Striker Systems SS-Profile
  • Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
  • XY Soft Sheet Cutting Suite
  • Corte Certo
  • FCC Software AutoPOL Series
  • WiCAM PN4000
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • JETCAM Expert
  • Computer aided design CAD software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Merry Mechanization SMP/IS
  • Applied Production ProFold
  • QuickPen DuctDesigner 3D
  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Angle grinders
  • Calipers
  • Hoists
  • Clamp-on ammeters
  • Metal inert gas MIG welders
  • Cutoff saws
  • V-notchers
  • Magnehelic pressure gauges
  • Framing squares
  • Hard hats
  • Oxygen testers
  • Nibblers
  • Hydraulic hoists
  • Multimeters
  • Pipe cutters
  • Pneumatic riveters
  • Straightedges
  • Spot welders
  • C clamps
  • Humidity sensors
  • Stencils
  • Chain hoists
  • Cold chisels
  • Pipe reamers
  • Dial indicators
  • Slings
  • Hand brakes
  • Hand crimpers
  • Plasma cutters
  • Bar folders
  • Trammel points
  • Scale rulers
  • Hand notchers
  • Pneumatic hammers
  • Ammeters
  • Electric drills
  • Computer controlled presses
  • Power sanders
  • Digital multimeters
  • U-tube manometers
  • Burring machines
  • Pneumatic impact wrenches
  • Portable plasma cutters
  • AC welding power units
  • Safety goggles
  • Tongs
  • Circular saws
  • Laser cutters
  • Ring and circular shears
  • Riveting tools
  • Micrometers
  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Strobe tachometers
  • Riveting hammers
  • Ladders
  • Welding helmets
  • Aviation snips
  • Wiring machines
  • Groovers
  • Dividers
  • Single-cut mill saw files
  • Wire cutters
  • Templates
  • Psychrometers
  • AC/DC welding power units
  • Setting hammers
  • Caulking guns
  • Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
  • Scribers
  • Power notchers
  • Cordless drills
  • Polishers
  • Pipe threaders
  • Hydraulic presses
  • Box and pan brakes
  • Safety glasses
  • Seamers
  • Power routers
  • Power presses
  • Millivolt meters
  • Socket wrench sets
  • Cleat formers
  • Drill presses
  • Computer controlled saws
  • Prick punches
  • Portable spot welders
  • Jigs
  • Oxyacetylene welding equipment
  • Hole punches
  • Bandsaws
  • Spiral duct machines
  • Safety gloves
  • Mechanical tachometers
  • Drifts
  • Personal computers
  • Squaring shears
  • Transit levels
  • Side cutting pliers
  • Allen wrenches
  • Turning machines
  • Pitot tubes
  • Hammer drills
  • Ohmmeters
  • Plumb bobs
  • Hand dollies
  • Desktop computers
  • Rotary punches
  • Velometers
  • Center punches
  • Ball peen hammers
  • Soldering furnaces
  • Smoke testers
  • Bumping hammers
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 monitors
  • Beam compasses
  • Rivet presses
  • Hacksaws
  • Hammers
  • Power brakes
  • Spirit levels
  • Screwdrivers
  • Bolt cutters
  • Calibrated flow hoods
  • Easy edgers
  • Stack thermometers
  • Power buffers
  • Double seaming equipment
  • Power punches
  • Vise grip pliers
  • Squares
  • Nut drivers
  • Tap sets
  • Acoustic ear muffs or defenders
  • Scratch awls
  • Tape measures
  • Pop rivet guns
  • Beading machines
  • Protractors
  • Protective clothing
  • Foot shears
  • Cleat folders
  • Dimplers
  • Unishears
  • Combination snips
  • Laser printers
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Laser levels
  • Chalk lines
  • Tempscribes
  • Combustion analyzers
  • T squares
  • Vernier calipers
  • Welding facial shields
  • Draft gauges
  • Pressure gauges
  • Power shears
  • Electric impact wrenches
  • Cold-cut saws
  • Scaffolding
  • Set squares
  • Punches
  • Slip roll formers
  • Welding tips
  • Microamp meters
  • Inclined manometers

Alternative Job Titles